(n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock.
(n.) The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) During childbirth infibulation causes a variety of serious problems includind prolonged labor and obstructed delivery, with increased risk of fetal brain damage and fetal loss.
(2) The defibulation operation can cause heavy bleeding and infections, especially genital infections, which can multiply quickly and unnoticed in the tissues created by the infibulation.
(3) A women who has been infibulated suffers great difficulty and pain during sexual intercourse, which can be excruciating if a neuroma has formed at the point of section of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris.
(4) Just one surgeon in Britain, Dr Kamal Iskander , based at Northwick Park Hospital in Middlesex, is known to perform the occasional clitoroplasty on a patient but, he explains, only if he's already operating on them for more extensive post-FGM problems, such as chronic pain or infibulation.
(5) We saw three women born in the Horn of Africa in whom the residual state of infibulation could be observed.
(6) Cases have been reported in which infibulated unmarried girls have developed swollen bellies, owing to obstruction of the menstrual flow.
(7) Type 3: Infibulation Infibulation, a form of female genital mutilation.
(8) Men pay for their daughters' infibulation, retain the right to dispose of them in marriage, honour their wives after childbirth, and claim children of the union for their patriline.
(9) The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 repealed and replaced the 1985 act in England, Wales and Northern Ireland making it an offence if a person excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl or woman's labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.
(10) They included "the massacre of people solely for reasons of their religious adherence"; "the execrable practice[s] of decapitation, crucifixion and hanging of corpses in public places"; "the choice imposed on Christians and Yazidis between conversion to Islam, payment of a tax (jizya) and exodus"; "the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of people, including children, old people, pregnant women and the sick"; "the abduction of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi and Christian communities as war booty (sabaya)", and "the imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation".
(11) And, luckily, she has not suffered the infibulation ritual that stitches the vagina partially shut.
(12) In order to improve women's health and status, the international health organisations can use their influence to replace mutilating excision and infibulation by a minor ritual incision.
(13) Under section 1(1) of the Female Genital Mutilation Act (2003) a person is guilty of an offence if he excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl or woman's labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.
(14) However, it is women who actually practice infibulation and who keep firmly within their hands all the ritual surrounding vital stages of their life cycle.
(15) Eighty-eight percent of them had been circumcised with excision and infibulation, 6.5% were circumcised with clitoridectomy and the remaining 5.5% with Sunna.
(16) Factors thought to influence this sexual transmission include (1) promiscuity, with a high prevalence of sexually transmitted disease; (2) sexual practices that have been associated with increased risk of transmission of AIDS virus (homosexuality and anal intercourse); and (3) cultural practices that are possibly connected with increased virus transmission (female "circumcision" and infibulation).
(17) Specific factors thought to influence AIDS transmission in Africa include: promiscuity, with a high prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases; sexual practices that have been associated with increased risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) such as homosexuality and anal intercourse; and cultural practices, including female circumcision and infibulation.
(18) 88% underwent excision and infibulation, 6.5% clitoridectomy, and 5.5% a Sunna procedure involving excision of the prepuce of the clitoris.
(19) 88% had been circumcised with excision and infibulation.
(20) Infibulation is the commonest type of circumcision used (75.7%).
Pharaonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Pharaohs, or kings of ancient Egypt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three Pharaonic mummies, preserved for thousand of years, had fiberoptic endoscopy carried out of the cranial, thoracic and abdominal cavities.
(2) But on Sunday, Adel al-Khayat, who was a member of Gamaa Islamiya , a group whose associates murdered at least 58 tourists in 1997 at a pharaonic temple in Luxor, resigned from the job just days after he was installed.
(3) Over 25 per cent of women subjected to the more severe forms of circumcision, i.e., "Pharaonic," suffer serious physical complications.
(4) Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
(5) Most of the adverse health consequences are associated with Pharaonic circumcision.
(6) (A-group, C-group, Pharaonic); and Intensive Agriculturalist, A.D. 0-1400 (Meroitic, X-Group, Christian).
(7) On one night this month in Luxor, which houses the tomb of Tutankhamun among other pharaonic treasures, just 264 foreigners slept in the city's hotels, according to police.
(8) Egypt is turning back into ancient Egypt,” he said, referring to the Pharaonic rule of the land that ended more than two millennia ago.
(9) "It's revolutionary," said Kent Weeks, a leading Egyptologist who has been researching pharaonic sites since the 1960s.
(10) "Egyptologists are always very scathing about Roman mummification, which is not what it had been in the Pharaonic period," said Walker.
(11) His vision of the world he wanted to make, to commemorate himself and his ideology, was complete, overwhelming and Pharaonic.
(12) The Egyptian people have lost their awe of pharaonic rulers.
(13) Many discoveries have been made on the existence of dentistry during the pharaonic time in Egypt.
(14) He hopes the lifesize facsimile will provide as good an experience as the original to divert visitors and ultimately help to preserve it and other pharaonic treasures.
(15) Why not?” Zawyet Dahshur lies on the edge of the Sahara just south of the Memphis ruins – all that remains of one of Pharaonic Egypt’s most important capitals – and across the Nile from Helwan.
(16) It refers back to pharaonic or African habits and doctors do it for their personal financial benefit.” The medical profession is also undergoing gradual change.
(17) Posters portray the Muslim Brotherhood's leader as a sinister black octopus, giving a stubby finger to the Egyptian people, in pharaonic headdress and with a diagonal red stripe slashed across his bearded face.
(18) The discovery of King Senebkay is the first firm evidence of a pharaonic dynasty whose existence archaeologists had suspected but never proved.
(19) Although they did not name diseases as we know them, Pharaonic physicians described a host of gastroenterological symptoms for which an extensive array of therapeutics was prescribed.
(20) Officials hope the £420,000 project will prolong the life of the original while promoting a new model of sustainable tourism and research in a country where many pharaonic sites are under severe threat.